{"id":35111,"date":"2014-02-14T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=35111"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:23:24","slug":"2-hour-vfx-masterclass-with-douglas-trumbull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/2-hour-vfx-masterclass-with-douglas-trumbull\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Hour VFX Masterclass with Douglas Trumbull"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"vfx-masterclass-with-the-visual-effects-legend-behind-2001-space-odyssey-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-blade-runner-and-many-more\">VFX Masterclass with the visual effects legend behind 2001: Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner and many more.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FBaZQojd1_s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this <strong>superb two hour masterclass<\/strong>, visual effects legend <a title=\"Douglas Trumbull\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874320\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Douglas Trumbull<\/a>\u00a0walks through his entire career including:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Firsthand accounts of working with director Stanley Kubrick and conceptualizing special effects which are today considered the defining breakthrough of the medium.\u00a0Other topics included: the history of widescreen cinema \u2013 from Cinerama to today&#8217;s IMAX, Trumbull&#8217;s work with motion-simulation rides, and the current state of digital special effects and Trumbull&#8217;s own involvement with these innovations.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This masterclass was filmed at <a title=\"Trumbull Masterclass\" href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/higherlearning\/events\/Trumbull\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">a Higher Learning event at TIFF Bell Lightbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-history-and-science-of-2001s-slit-scan-effect\">The History and Science of 2001&#8217;s Slit Scan Effect<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KhRo2WbWnKU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we wanted to share this fun video from <a title=\"Filmmaker IQ\" href=\"http:\/\/filmmakeriq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Filmmaker IQ<\/a>\u00a0where John Hess walks through the science and history of\u00a0<strong>how Douglas Trumbull pulled off the stargate effect for director Stanley Kubrick. <\/strong>The video wraps up with a recreation of the effect using a DIY Lego gear setup!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this masterclass video, VFX legend Douglas Trumbull shares his work behind the visual effects in 2001: Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":35653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79,78,39,583],"tags":[2320,2319,1832,756,1196,473],"class_list":["post-class-post-35111","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-inspiration","post-class-category-roundups","post-class-category-video-editing","post-class-category-video-production-2","post-class-tag-2001-space-odyssey","post-class-tag-douglas-trumbull","post-class-tag-masterclass","post-class-tag-special-effects","post-class-tag-stanley-kubrick","post-class-tag-visual-effects"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - 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